How private American money is being used to continue the building of Jewish settlements on Palestinian land even though the U.S. government wants to stop it.
An interview with Ralph Nader who is organizing a conference in Washington, D.C., in Nov. 1997 to explore how Microsoft is extending
its near-monopolistic control of the software business into other industries, including banking, insurance, car dealerships, travel services, real estate and television.
Contrary to Bill Gates' propaganda, users aren't clamoring for the integration of browsers and operating systems. But the government's clumsy intervention won't slove the problem.
Salon 21st: Little crashes lead to big crashes: By Andrew Leonard. Today's computer networks allow less and less "slack" for error. Yet we depend on them more and more to run our banks and airlines, our governments and wars. According to the author of "Trapped in the Net," we're asking for trouble.
When the giants of Net business say they want to protect your
privacy, they're really trying to make you feel comfortable about
giving up more information about yourself.
A British psychologist prowls for hard evidence that memes -- ideas that reproduce genetically, like viruses -- actually exist. What's one of the prime habitats? The Internet.
Salon 21st: No, Virginia, black folks aren't cool: Leonce Gaiter writes that the Web's anarchic town square feels like a hostile place for African-Americans still eager to embrace old-fashioned values.
